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The USA is home to several of the world's most exciting cities, some truly mind-blowing landscapes, a strong sense of regionalism, a trenchant mythology, more history than the country gives itself credit for and, arguably, some of the most approachable natives in the world.
The US was fashioned from an incredibly disparate population who, with little in common apart from a desire to choose their own paths to wealth or heaven, rallied around the ennobling ideals of the Declaration of Independence to forge the richest, most inventive and most powerful country on earth.
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Wed, 18 Nov 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [42]
IT’S NOT EASY BEING A MANATEE. First off is the identity crisis. We are not—and never have been—mermaids, despite what old-timey sailors may have you believe. They must have been at sea way t-o-o long.
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Wed, 11 Nov 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [42]
WE THOUGHT WE WERE FINISHED WITH HURRICANE SEASON. But this IS 2020 when even the improbable becomes likely. Last year it was typhoons , the Pacific Ocean’s version hurricanes. We managed to avoid the worst of Typhoons Krosa, ... Read more >
Sat, 7 Nov 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [62]
JOE BIDEN HAS WON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. It isn’t official yet—there will be more counting, recounting, legal suits, countersuits, wailing and gnashing of teeth before the results are certified—but it is a good start. ... Read more >
Sun, 1 Nov 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [49]
MOVING MAY GIVE ONE THE ILLUSION OF CHANGE but it isn’t possible to escape reality. In other words, you can run but you can't hide. Covid is still eating its way through the population, the Election grows even more contentious and its ... Read more >
Sun, 18 Oct 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [64]
COCOA BEACH HAD THE RIGHT STUFF back in the 60s—but we all had it back then, didn't we? Cocoa was a company town—and the company was NASA. It was famous for Astronauts, surfing, beach babes-in-bikinis and as the setting for I ... Read more >
Thu, 8 Oct 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [44]
WE HAVE BEEN IN FLORIDA FOR A WEEK and yesterday was the first time the weather was good enough to go to the beach. Connie has been out walking every day, of course, but she is like the Post Office used to be—neither rain, nor snow. . . .... Read more >
Fri, 2 Oct 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [57]
IT WAS TIME FOR A CHANGE. A change of scenery. A change of season. A change in weather. And most of all, a change in attitude. We never thought we would be glad to leave Colorado, but there it is—six Covid-imposed ... Read more >
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [60]
THE CALENDAR MAY SAY THAT AUTUMN has arrived but, despite the recent dusting of snow, it is still summery here in the Mile High City. It’s a different story along the Colorado Trail near Kenosha Pass, fifty miles west and another mile higher ... Read more >
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [56]
OUR RENEWED PASSPORTS FINALLY ARRIVED, three months after we applied for them. They are so much thinner—the Jenny Craig version—and so much more pristine than the old ones, whose pages are filled and whose logos are nearly worn off ... Read more >
Tue, 8 Sep 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [59]
IT WAS HARDLY A BLIZZARD BUT ANY SNOW this early in September is unusual, especially after Labor Day temperatures climbed into the 90s. Although snow is possible any time in the mountains, this is the earliest it has snowed along the Front Range ... Read more >
Wed, 2 Sep 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [80]
THE BRITS CALL THEM JABS—vaccinations, flu shots and the like. So while the country waits for the sometime-in-the-future Covid-19 vaccine, Connie and I got the 2020 model flu shot at Walgreens. Not only was it covered by Medicare, Walgreens ... Read more >
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [63]
WE’RE STILL HERE—MORE OR LESS. We had to abandon the condo we’d been in since April, but only to move to the next building. It’s the same layout with different furnishings—a step up in some ways and down in others—... Read more >
Sun, 23 Aug 2020 | By graynomadsusa | Views [94]
THE CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED, THE BATTLE-LINES DRAWN and, as Conan Doyle would say, “The game is afoot.” Perhaps Michael Buffer’s “Let’s get ready to rumble!” is more apt.
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